Elegy for Tahlequah’s Calf
Desdemona Despair
By Paul Nelson
30 July 2018(Cascadia Magazine) – (For David McCloskey)
Tahlequah is daughter of Princess Angeline
brother of Moby, sister to Kiki, mother
to Notch. Her second offspring was not
born but born still and still un-named &
un-numbered. For five days Tahlequah
pushed her still-born calf around the
Salish Sea, perhaps a hope that she’d
not be a parent to bury a child, perhaps
a grief vigil, the un-named/un-numbered
calf riding dead on her rostrum five days.
Tahlequah, Cherokee for “plains” or a kind
of red rice, or “just two” or “two is enough.”
Or a ferry terminal on Vashon. Five days
says the witness from the whale museum
sitting shiva and watching her “deep breaths.”
She carried the dead calf 20 miles one day
in her teeth from time to time through the
full Ripe Thimbleberry Moon, through stage
one grief, denial. “We are going to be here
as long as necessary for her.” Here
is what your ferry-line idling of your
giant truck brings, 108.7 degree low
temperatures in Quriyat, Oman, eleven
fires in the Arctic Circle, momma whales
pushing around their still-born calves five days.
But you stayed cool in your air-conditioned
life, you had bigger fish to fry than whales
who have no lobby, you idled that engine
until the last glacier died, the last salmon
leapt & last forest burned.
These are the stories the children of our
children will tell if there are storytellers
in their time. How we slept at the switch
ignored the clear signs of doom, how we
were scholars of war & good tweeters
had nice dinner photographs & saved ourselves
from Muslims & immigrants & every vague
threat the cruel majority could conjure
while the world burned & one whale mom
did all our crying for us.
Paul E Nelson
9:24am – 7.28.2018
“We are going to be here as long as necessary for her.” –Quote from Taylor Shedd, Program Coordinator for Soundwatch in the Seattle Times, 27 July 2018.
Etymology of Tahlequah.
Quiriyat in Oman breaks world low temperature record.
Arctic Circle burns as record heat broils Europe.
Source: http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2018/08/elegy-for-tahlequahs-calf.html
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